Speaker. farmworkers are among the lowest paid of any working group in the country. They also live in some of the worst housing. Migrant farmworkers. especially. are relegated to some of the most unsanitary living conditions and shelters known anywhere. That we as a people. and a government. should allow this to happenyes. even condone itis criminal. Some efforts to solve the problem have been attempted. but they are only scratching the surface. In my own State. the California Office of Economic Opportunity. with financial assistance from the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. have constructed over 2.000 temporary structures which are used by migrants during the harvest seasons. But they only provide minimum shelter. and California is the only State in which they have been built. The only other Federal Government agency attempting to solve the problem is the Farmers Home Administration.
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